Motivational Quotes

Freedom

None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.

- Milton, John

Best Quotes about Freedom

It is our belief that if people are set free to express themselves to the fullest, their accomplishments will be far beyond their dreams, and they will not only contribute to the growth of the company, but will also be more useful citizens and contribute to the society at large.

Blount, Wilton M.

How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

You can only be free if I am free.

Darrow, Clarence

Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Luther, Martin

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

There are always risks in freedom. The only risk in bondage is breaking free.

Bellin, Gita

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Ballou, Hosea

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

Collingwood, Robin G.

The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Blum, Leon

10.

The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Voltaire

11.

Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.

Adams, John

12.

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. But without freedom, no socialism either, except the socialism of the gallows.

Camus, Albert

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Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person. If we are not capable of this examination, we may yet become one of the most distinguished and monumental failures in the history of nations.

Baldwin, James

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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Washington, George

15.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

16.

A forest bird never wants a cage.

Ibsen, Henrik

17.

What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

18.

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Norton, Eleanor Holmes

19.

We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

Terence

20.

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

22.

When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom.

Malcolm X

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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Washington, George

26.

The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.

Aurobindo, Ghose

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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

Pound, Ezra

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Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Lord Acton

30.

In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

31.

The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

Thoreau, Henry David

32.

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Hoffer, Eric

33.

Bondage is... subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

Stone, W. Clement

34.

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Euripides

35.

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Augustine, St.

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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

39.

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

40.

The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

Twitchell, Paul

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The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.

Wilson, Robert

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I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change.

Quayle, Dan

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Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.

Clegg, William C.

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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

45.

A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

46.

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.